The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.- John Galsworthy

Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.Endings: what must precede new beginnings.Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourishin the decay of last year.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -especially if your marriage had lasted many years.Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,and whatever the nature of its ending,there is always grief and regret -perhaps regret over the ending,or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -or perhaps both.Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,opens the door to new beginnings.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.If, in short, I am an optimist,my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.- Helen Keller...Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blindto become a famous author, lecturer, and activistfor women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

The ending of a job or a relationshipmay appear as the darkest night,but it is merely the Winter season -the time of renewal and rebirththat precedes the new planting -the beginning of the next great cycle.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,and it is far the best ending for one.- Oscar Wilde

Ending a sentence with a preposition issomething up with which I will not put.- Winston Churchill

It's a never ending battle of making your cars betterand also trying to be better yourself.- Dale Earnhardt

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.- Carl Bard

Do feuds ever end?Only when both sides shake hands,and agree that there is no winner, no loser,only people who have wearied of fightingand desire to live in peace.For many years, Northern Ireland was lockedin a murderous and seemingly unending feud.The key to ending the feud was a shared commitmentthat peace was more important than vengeance.That is always the choice to be made.The organizers of an April 10, 2009joint Protestant-Catholic commemorationof the Northern Ireland dead,comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Feinas well as their once-avowed enemies,referred to, "the terrible, random natureof death in war and civil conflict."Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives begin to end the day we become silentabout things that matter.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Capture a shadow,dance with the wind,stand in a rainbow,begin at the end.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar.Sometimes courage is the quiet voiceat the end of the day, saying,"I will try again tomorrow."- Mary Anne Radmacher

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,the master calls a butterfly.- Richard Bach

Everything is okay in the end.If it's not okay, then it's not the end.- Anonymous

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.If you concentrate on what you don't have,you will never, ever have enough.- Oprah Winfrey

The end of labor is to gain leisure.- Aristotle

Begin with the end in mind.- Stephen Covey

Trust your instinct to the end,though you can render no reason.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eternity:I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my beingMy curiosity unbound, I test the limitsof the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -to the end which is not an end.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you reach the end of your rope,tie a knot and hang on.- Anonymous Saying(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

I teach one thing and one only:that is, suffering and the end of suffering.- The Buddha

Wisdom begins at the end.- Daniel Webster

Smile.Today would be a wonderful daynot to take life so seriously.Today may end up the way you prefer -and it may not.Happiness is not about being a winner -it's about being gentle with life -being gentle with yourself.Let life be a dance,and choose the kind ofdance you want for today -perhaps a gentle loving dance.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.You are you and that is the beginning and the end -no apologies, no regrets.- Henry Kissinger

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,can any work be humble or disgusting?Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,the means by which we are translated?- Henry David Thoreau

If you do not change direction,you may end up where you are heading.- Lao Tzu

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.- Thomas Henry Huxley

A bend in the road is not the end of the roadunless you fail to make the turn.- Anonymous

Does who we are begin with breath,depend on form, or end with death?- Kirtana

War would end if the dead could return.- Stanley Baldwin

To be what we are,and to become what we are capable of becoming,is the only end in life.- Baruch Spinoza

If we don't end war, war will end us.- H. G. Wells

Let's have faith that right makes might;and in that faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand it.- Abraham Lincoln

A friendship that can end never really began.- Publilius Syrus

All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.- Theodore H. White

If patience is worth anything,it must endure to the end of time.And a living faith will lastin the midst of the blackest storm.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is good to have an end to journey towards;but it is the journey that matters in the end.- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is the journey that matters, in the end- Ursula K. Le Guin

If I choose to bless another person,I will always end up feeling more blessed.- Marianne Williamson

I have always held firmly to the thoughtthat each one of us can do a littleto bring some portion of misery to an end.- Albert Schweitzer

I do the very best I know how -the very best I can;and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.- Abraham Lincoln

Whatever good things we build end up building us.- Jim Rohn

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."- Lewis Carroll

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.Let the image of your success play on the giant screenin full color with surround sound -so real you can smell and taste it.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we call the beginning is often the end.And to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from.- T. S. Eliot

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.- Bono

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.- George Santayana

And in the end, it's notthe years in your life that count,it's the life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.- R. Buckminster Fuller

People in their handlings of affairsoften fail when they are about to succeed.If one remains as careful at the endas he was at the beginning,there will be no failure.- Lao Tzu

I believe that if one always looked at the skies,one would end up with wings.- Gustave Flaubert

We live in a wonderful world that isfull of beauty, charm and adventure.There is no end to the adventures that we can haveif only we seek them with our eyes open.- Jawaharlal Nehru

We are all born for love.It is the principle of existence, and its only end.- Benjamin Disraeli

When you reach the end of your rope,tie a knot in it and hang on.- Thomas Jefferson

At the end of a matter ask,"What will I learn from this to make me better?"- Mary Anne Radmacher

The wise man looks back into the past,and does not grieve over what is far off,nor rejoice over what is near;for he knows that time is without end.- Lao Tzu

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.- John F. Kennedy

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,is the end.- Walter Pater

The truth is incontrovertible,malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,but in the end; there it is.- Winston Churchill

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally,in the end, pleasure.- Mark Strand

I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -to the end that is not an end.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.- Margaret Thatcher

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.- Margaret Thatcher

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all of our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time- T. S. Eliot

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.- Arthur Miller

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.Following the rainbow is happiness,not getting to the end of it.- Werner Erhard